Competitive Grants: Promoting K-12 Student Achievement at Military-Connected Schools

The DoDEA Educational Partnership Grant Program provide resources for local education agencies [LEAs] to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of the highly mobile military-connected students in their community. The Grant Program specifically provides resources to military-connected LEAs to develop and implement projects that are designed to:
• Engage students where disciplines converge, including programs that meaningfully integrate science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM) subjects as well as other disciplines such as Career and Technical Education (CTE), arts & humanities.
• Designing innovative remote learning experiences to teach literacy, mathematics, computer science, and/or other CTE courses.
• Develop partnerships or consortia approaches to implement education and outreach programs with a holistic approach to understanding real-world applications.
• Fill gaps in schools that lack necessary infrastructure through innovative programming and/or novel interventions to address student achievement gaps in any curricular subject.

OR progress World Languages for military-connected student through one on the following:
1) Establish and implement programs that showcase a meaningful integration of world language(s) across subject areas. Projects under this scope would include world language immersion or partial world language immersion of any of the languages included on the DoD SLL (Appendix D) and/or ASL.
2) Establish and implement an exploratory pilot program that seeks to create new world language experiences for students. For example, this type of project may link native speakers of languages other than English within the LEA with the target schools in order to promote two-way language learning. The language used for this scope must be included on the DoD SLL (Appendix D) and/or ASL.
3) Improve or expand content-based instruction in the target school’s current world language program of one or more of the languages included on the DoD SLL (Appendix D) and/or ASL.
4) Effectively use technology, such as computer-assisted instruction or distance (virtual) learning, to establish or expand course offerings of one or more world languages included on the DoD SLL (Appendix D) and/or ASL.

Awards are be made to local educational agencies (LEAs) on behalf of their eligible school(s). To qualify all participating schools must have a 10 percent or greater military dependent student enrollment. School districts apply on behalf of eligible schools.

K-12 students are the primary beneficiaries, although the grants may also fund teacher professional development.

Applicants must complete Standard Forms 424,424A, and applicable certifications and representations (e.g., Lobbying) as indicated on Grants.gov. Applications are only accepted through Grants.gov submissions.

1. Grants.gov will announce a notice of funding opportunity for this program and provide application instructions.
2. LEAs will apply directly to Grants.gov for opportunity.
3. LEAs apply by submitting required package paperwork through Grants.gov funding opportunity link.
4. Applications are peer reviewed using the evaluation criteria listed in the notice, with DoDEA making the final award selections.

Funding decisions are based on the following specific criteria:
• Evaluation of risks posed by applicant to include history of performance and ability to effectively implement requirements.
• Application scores, as determined by peer reviewers.
• Availability of Federal funds.